Title :
Quantitative experimental study of intrachannel nonlinear timing jitter in a 10-Gb/s terrestrial WDM return-to-zero system
Author :
Xu, Hai ; Zweck, John ; Yan, Li ; Menyuk, Curtis R. ; Carter, Gary M.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, MD, USA
Abstract :
Using a recirculating loop, we measured nonlinearly induced timing jitter in a terrestrial wavelength-division-multiplexed system at different transmission distances with different amounts of precompensation. Within each 600-GHz subband, we achieved error-free transmission using the same amount of precompensation for all channels at all distances up to 5000 km.
Keywords :
nonlinear distortion; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; timing jitter; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 5000 km; bit-error rate; error-free transmission; intrachannel nonlinear timing jitter; long-haul system; nonlinear distortion; optical Kerr effect; optical fiber dispersion; precompensation; recirculating loop; single-mode fiber; terrestrial WDM return-to-zero system; Bit error rate; Degradation; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Power transmission lines; Pulse modulation; Timing jitter; Transmission line theory; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2003.820470
